http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/ Engadget Comments for Intel forks over the $1.25 billion settlement to AMD, apparently had it 'just laying around' http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Dec 11th 2009 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/
Dear Engadget,

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You know, I kinda feel like somebody's watching me.]]>Dec 11th 2009 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Dec 11th 2009 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/
"Tell me who's watchin'..."]]>Dec 11th 2009 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Dec 11th 2009 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Dec 11th 2009 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/I agree with you that what Intel did in no way damaged AMD as much as they claim. However, these kind of anticompetitive tactics need be stopped so a message needed to be sent to Intel. ]]>Dec 11th 2009 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/During these alleged anti-competitive business tactics AMD was making much better processors than intel (During the age of pentium 3s and 4s.) The Athlon64 (such as the FX-55) crushed anything intel had (even the p4 clocked @ 3.8Ghz). And do your remember the first dual cores (The Pentium D Smithsfield core vs Athlon X2). AMD embarrassed intel then.]]>Dec 11th 2009 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/The interesting thing will be to see what AMD do with the cash - they have a lot of talented creative designers, a few years down the line we might see some great products.]]>Dec 11th 2009 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/
That doesn't change the fact that AMD's current tech is crap.

And you are clearly ignorant of how much money these companies spend, if you think a billion dollars is enough to magically change that, you are a fool. A billion dollar's is less money than AMD has been losing annually for years now. And a billion is far less money than Intel or AMD spend of chip development.

AMD just went in the wrong direction, Intel went for high performance technology, and that allowed them to advance their tech so that their lower end processors were still high end performers, AMD went for budget tech, and now the gap is just widening.]]>Dec 11th 2009 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/I noticed in B&M shops the ratio of Intel based computers to AMD based computer, it was quite disappointing.]]>Dec 11th 2009 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/]]>Dec 11th 2009 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Actually one could argue that it was Intel's anti-competitive practices that led to AMD CPU's not performing as well.

It takes about 3 years from concept to launch to design a CPU, and in the 1999-2005 time frame (except for that blip with northwood), AMD was the undisputed performance king, yet their sales didn't really reflect that like it should have. Thus Intel's (presumed) anti-competitive practices led to AMD getting a far smaller return on their engineering investment than they would have, leading to engineering and process cuts which in turn affected the 2006-2009 CPU lines.

If AMD had been more profitable who knows how things would have played out.]]>Dec 11th 2009 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Dec 11th 2009 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Dec 11th 2009 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Dec 11th 2009 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Dec 11th 2009 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Dec 11th 2009 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Dec 11th 2009 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Well, they've "innovated" themselves into the top-o-the-line worldwide chip-maker position, and regardless of whether or not I own AMD or Intel stocks I think AMD deserves a break. Without them we'd be suckin' down Atom N270's for 2+ more years! Innovation breeds competition, but that can't happen when cash is a major factor such as AMD's case. Whether or not they deserve the cash I'm not sure, but hopefully they take some of that and invest it in some more modern chip architectures. Intel is having to slow their new releases so that AMD can catch up, I want to see AMD serve up a big can of Whoop Ass on Intel, and soon.]]>Dec 11th 2009 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/take a look at http://www.cringely.com/2009/12/intel-will-buy-nvidia/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ICringely+%28I%2C+Cringely%29]]>Dec 11th 2009 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Dec 11th 2009 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/
I think the patents were already in use... i.e. Patents AMD owned and intel was using (or vice-a-versa) - I dont think this will lead to new technologies making the jump from Intel to AMD. ]]>Dec 11th 2009 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Dec 11th 2009 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/
Hopefully AMD will use this $1.25billion for R&D so they can once again become competitive with Intel and return to innovating instead of playing catch-up.]]>Dec 11th 2009 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/
This better go into "Bulldozer", the 2 to 4 thread per core CPU from AMD coming in a year or two from now. I'm very excited about what that processor will bring. Dual core CPU with 8 threads sound good?

In actuality, I think most of the $1.25 will pay lawyer fees for years to come.]]>Dec 11th 2009 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Dec 11th 2009 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Well, that's what happened, but the fact that AMD was able to do that while maintaining compatibility was a good thing, even for Intel.
And if you want to point out the shortcommings of x86, point your finger to Intel, and if you want to point to the responsibles for this situation, it's Intel again, because they didn't gave the specifications for the x86 architecture to AMD when they were obligated to. And they did the same thing with the itanium aschitecture, forcing this situation...]]>Dec 11th 2009 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Dec 11th 2009 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/
Still, I'm getting a PC early next year with an i7 so. Unless AMD can come up with something as good in about 3 months.]]>Dec 11th 2009 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/
As a side note, Geico's "Kash" was my Halloween costume. Just sold it on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140364264350
(Not spam, as the auction is over.)]]>Dec 11th 2009 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Dec 11th 2009 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Dec 11th 2009 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Dec 11th 2009 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/>NVIDIA
>good chipsets

I hope you are joking.]]>Dec 11th 2009 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/No Nvidia does have good chipsets it's just that Intel has decided to make Nvidia's life as miserable as possible]]>Dec 11th 2009 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/
In the end, they all have equal chip stacks ...]]>Dec 11th 2009 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/|_|_$_|_|
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It will certainly help them and all, but a billion dollars is no where near enough to magically make AMD profitable again.]]>Dec 11th 2009 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Dec 11th 2009 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/
http://www.geico.com/public/audio/somebodyswatchingme.mp3
(source: http://www.geico.com/about/commercials/music/kash)
Source has a Making Of video!]]>Dec 11th 2009 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Dec 11th 2009 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Dec 11th 2009 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Dec 12th 2009 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/intel-forks-over-the-1-25-billion-settlement-to-amd-apparently/Dec 12th 2009 5:38PM